Category: Volume 1 issue 2

Free Pizza!, by Rob Leforte You’re probably familiar with this enticing phrase. It appears in bolded font on campus bulletin boards across the country. The message beckons undergraduates to leave dorm rooms, apartments, and libraries to engage in meaningful action. Any current or former student organizer is familiar with this tactic. When you need to fill a room for a guest lecture, film screening, or club meeting on a limited budget you invest in the tastiest common denominator to bring a crowd. Most students face competing pressures to keep up their grades, balance extracurriculars, and juggle part-time work to gain experience or just to make ends meet. Between the ages of 18 and 24 most youth are in a state of transience, geographic or otherwise, that makes it harder to engage them in anything. Youth clearly face more barriers to voting than any other segment of the population, but these are insurmountable for very few people. I’ve been able to vote in every election since I turned 18, despite changing addresses between each election and using different identification regularly, while juggling other commitments. Voting is often difficult, which is problematic, but rarely is it impossible. The real issue for most[…]